Healthful Spring with Lao Salads

Rice salad

Ingredients:

• organic Brown rice 4 cups
• Q Tofu (Lamyong) 600g
• Eggs 6
• carrot 1
• small fresh snow peas 200g
• Fresh organic Coriander 1 bunch
• Organic Sesame seeds 1/3 cup
• Mayonnaise 5 tablespoons
• Organic Lemon or lime juice 1 lemon or lime
• Soy sauce 6 tablespoons
• Olive Oil 3 tablespoons

Method:

• Bring 4 cups waters and the brown rice to the boil. Let simmer with the lid on until cooked.
• Beat the eggs in a bowl ready to make an omelette. In a pan fry the eggs to make a thin omelette. Take out of the pan and let cool. Then slice the omelette into strips.
• Fry the Q tofu in the pan until brown. Finely chop the Q tofu once cooled.
• Wash and chop the Coriander, finely chop the carrot and the snow peas.
• Combine the mayonnaise, sesame seeds, lemon/lime juice and soy sauce, mix well
• In a large bowl, mix all ingredients well.

Lao Larb salad

Ingredients:

• Lamyong vege Golden Duck 2 packet of 500g
• Lettuce leaves 20 to serve as salad wraps
• Snow peas or snake beans 2 cups
• fresh mint 1 cup
• Fresh chilli 1 chilli
• Roast chilli power 1 tea spoon (optional)
• Roast rice power 3 table spoons
• Kaffir Lime leaf 8 leaf
• Lemon juice 1 fresh squeeze
• Soy sauce 4 table spoons
• Lemon grass young fresh 4 stalks

Method:

• Chop veg golden duck into bite size pieces and pan fry until brown.
• Chop the snow peas or snake beans into small pieces finely chop kaffir lime leaf, lemon grass and put into a bowl
• roughly chop mint and chilli In a large salad bowl, mix all ingredients well, and toss with the rice power, lemon juice and soy sauce
• To serve, take a lettuce leaf, spoon on the salad and scoff down.

Lao Style Coleslaw

Ingredients:

• Vege Golden Duck, 500g (Lamyong)
• ½ savoy cabbage (shredded) Purple/white
• 3 carrots (shredded)
• Mayonnaise, ½ cup (you may prefer S&W which is savoury rather than sweet)
• 1/2 cup cashews (chopped)
• 1 Spanish onion (chopped) (optional)
• 2 cups of mint (chopped)
• Mushroom Soy Sauce
• Sugar, organic raw,
• 2 tablespoons Lemon for juice
• Fresh Chilli, chopped fine

Method:

• mix the mayonnaise, mushroom soy sauce, chilli,vjuice of 1 lemon and organic sugar to make a dressing.
• Slice the vege golden duck into bite sized chunks and grill or pan fry until browned.
• In the salad bowl place the shredded cabbage and carrots, chopped cashews, chopped onions and mint.
• pour the dressing over the vegetables Use washed and cleaned hands to mix the salad well Serve

Tips:

• Honey can be replaced sugar
• Use seeds instead of nuts (if you are concerned about allergies)
• Mock protein products can replace meat
• Parsley or perrilla can replace mint

Gallery

fun preparing

Enjoying the cooking

busy as

all hands to work

chopping the Vege Golden Duck

Happy at work

still going strong

Rice Salad

Vege Chicken browned

finely chopped cashews

Salad from the earthcare garden

Green pawpaw and carrot

sliced and diced

add in some tomatoes

garden fresh thanks to Rex

Lao Larb in process

That’s Ling

An on the spot demo

Mortar and Pestle massaging the green pawpaw

love those peas

Just about done

Vietnamese Noodles

Green pawpaw all done

Coleslaw

Lao Larb into a lettuce

Lao Larb delight

Lao Larb

ready for a great meal together – just beautiful